All I see is one paragraph and it doesn’t even tell his whole name. It calls him ‘Williams’. Did I miss something? What was his crime to begin with?
Family friends from the city's Germantown section, Williams and Wilson (ED note: who was also convicted wrongly) were accused of being in a gang and working to kill three drug dealers from New York. In court filings, the District Attorney’s Officer later admitted the case against the two men was "built on a house of cards." Prosecutors acknowledged false jailhouse informant testimony, extensive undisclosed evidence, and forensic evidence that directly contradicted the informant’s story. "The basic structure underpinning the conviction was built on the unscrupulous behavior of several bad actors," the court filings said.
Originally sentenced to death for the murders of the three drug dealers, Williams was also previously convicted of murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in the killing of Michael Haynesworth. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) later revisited the Haynesworth murder case and discovered testimony against Williams was inconsistent with the available physical evidence, according to WCAU. Williams was exonerated a second time and released after serving 29 years behind bars.
So, an innocent man was jailed for decades due to prosecutorial misconduct bordering on criminal intent, and lots (except for you) are cheering?
Wow...SMH at some folks' rush to judgement based on looks on this thread.